[The_Reader_David]

I object to the author's assertion that the purpose of a university education is "learning as much as they can to compete in the brutal realities of the global economy. " I'm conservative enough to hold in high regard the view expressed by John Alexander Smith to his students at Oxford in 1914:

Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life - save only this - if you work hard and diligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.

I'd much rather abolish majors that have ceased in any way to teach student how to detect when men are talking rot than abolish those that don't contribute global economic competitiveness.

[dfwgator]

He echoed what I’ve always said, the purpose of education is for you to develop a “BS Detector.”

[SoothingDave]

I'd much rather abolish majors that have ceased in any way to teach student how to detect when men are talking rot

Detect it? Many majors specialize in it.

Remember Alan Sokol and the Social Text affair?